The Irish Rovers' Gems (Rover Records, 1996)

GREATEST HITS as of 1996 - Out of PrintOnly available as digital download.

A NOTE TO OUR FRIENDS
One evening last spring we sat down together to listen to our old albums with the purpose of releasing 12 tracks for a "best of" disk of our hard to find songs. After a laugh or two over the "Donald Duck" tone of our young voices, we realized there were some great songs that we had forgotten all about. As someone said that night, "there's a bunch of gems there." The more we listened to the old versions, the more new ideas for arrangements and instrumentation emerged. The real problem was about to start — how to get a group of Irishmen to agree to any thing, never mind selecting 12 songs out of approximately 300. After a few "civil" discussions and not so few Guinnesses, we managed to pick 32 of our favourites, at which point everyone refused to participate in the elimination of any more songs, out of love and respect for the material and the fact that the Guinness was now gone. Well, to end this artistic and cultural evening we not only decided on 32 tracks, we also decided to re-record them. We hope you get as much pleasure out of listening to these songs as we did redoing them. They've brought back many happy memories for us and hopefully they'll do the same for you. Enjoy.

THE IRISH ROVERS
GEORGE MILLAR — SEPTEMBER, 1996

CD One

The Last Of The Irish Rover

Star Of The County Down

Bonnets Of Bonnie Dundee

Liverpool Lou

The Gypsy Rover

Muirsheen Durkin

Come By The Hills

The Gallant Forty-Twa

No Nay Never

Whiskey On A Sunday

Farewell To Carlingford

I'm A Rambler, I'm A Gambler

The Unicorn

The Orange And The Green

Lily The Pink

CD Two

The Bonnie Lass Of Fyvie

Donald Where's Your Trousers

Mountain Tay

Sweet Strabane

Turra Market

Young Roddy McCorley

Tied Up With A Black Velvet Band

My Boy Willie

Caltan Weaver

The Isle Of Innishfree

Good Luck To The Barleymow

Wild Mountain Thyme

Weigh, Hey & Up She Rises

Rolling Home To Ireland

Wasn't That A Party

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